The Other Side blog

I have two modern horror campaigns. They let me play with similar ideas under different assumptions and even different rules. My oldest calls this "save scumming." It is from video games: if you don't like a particular outcome, you go back to your previous...

 By all accounts, Stephanie Vale, Andy Thompson, and even Roderick Morgan all have fortunes. 

But each one chooses to ignore that to do what they feel is more important.

There are fortunes to be had in Stephanie Vale, Andy Thompson, and Roderick Morgan. Though one would not call them the same kind of fortune.

Stephanie has her family’s money and a nam...

Candy Mercer and Denise Carver do not have magic.

You will not see them using any spells or a witch’s mark on them, nor do they have an ancient bloodline to call their own, let alone a familiar. To my knowledge, Denise can't even do a card trick, though I suspect Candy can.

It is 1986, and the two of them are still some way off from being the nurse and social work...

I have a West Haven in many of my worlds. 

They are not always the same place. They do not always have the same people, the same history, or even the same rules of magic. But they exist for the same reason.

Yet they are there for a common purpose: to serve as a safe haven for witches.

It is a form of charity, but not the kind born of pity. Ther...

 A promise on Yog is not a small thing.

In a kinder world, a promise might be comforting. A vow between friends. A pledge of love. A hand held across a difficult moment. Yog is no place for such niceties.

One does not make a promise on Yog and think little of it.

A promise here has the potential to be a weapon, a curse one bears because there is no ot...